YAPS collaborated with restaurant chain Raising Cane’s to bring the puppies to the clinic on July 30.

Patients cuddled up to the puppies between treatments.

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The clinic, an outpost of the hospital’s Unit 4800, treats pediatric blood-related diseases and cancers and is the largest of its kind in the Inland Empire. Young cancer patients receive treatments such as blood transfusions in the clinic.

The visit was designed to bring joy to children diagnosed with cancers such as leukemia and brain tumors and with blood-related diseases such as hemophilia, according to a press release from the hospital.

This was the first visit to the hospital for both the Yucaipa Animal Placement Society and Raising Cane’s.